College Football Week 1 Polls

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AP Top 25

1 Oklahoma (32)
2 LSU (17)
3 Alabama (9)
4 Boise State (2)
5 Florida State
6 Stanford
7 Texas A&M
8 Wisconsin
9 Oklahoma State
10 Nebraska
11 Virginia Tech
12 South Carolina
13 Oregon
14 Arkansas
15 Ohio State
16 Mississippi State
17 Michigan State
18 Florida
19 West Virginia
20 Baylor
21 Missouri
22 South Florida
23 Penn State
24 Texas
25 TCU

Dropped from rankings: Notre Dame 16, Georgia 19, Auburn 23, USC 25

Others receiving votes: Arizona State 119, Auburn 85, USC 69, Georgia 52, Northwestern 40, Maryland 34, Brigham Young 33, Iowa 29, Houston 27, Utah 24, Notre Dame 22, Michigan 17, Pittsburgh 11, Air Force 11, UCF 10, North Carolina State 8, Tennessee 6, Hawaii 6, NORIL 5, Arizona 5, Southern Miss 4, Georgia Tech 1, Clemson 1

USA Today Poll

1 Oklahoma (43)
2 Alabama (9)
3 LSU (7)
4 Florida State
5 Boise State
6 Stanford
7 Oklahoma State
8 Texas A&M
9 Wisconsin
10 Nebraska
11 Virginia Tech
12 South Carolina
13 Arkansas
14 Oregon
15 Ohio State
16 Michigan State
17 Mississippi State
18 Florida
19 Missouri
20 Penn State
21 Texas
22 Auburn
23 Arizona State
24 West Virginia
25 TCU

Dropped from rankings: Notre Dame 18, Georgia 22

Others receiving votes: Baylor 117, South Florida 97, Iowa 44, Utah 42, Georgia 35, Houston 31, Northwestern 30, Arizona 28, UCF 18, Hawaii 17, North Carolina 15, Michigan 15, NORIL 13, Clemson 13, Southern Miss 12, Air Force 10, Notre Dame 8, Tennessee 5, Brigham Young 4, Maryland 4, Georgia Tech 3, Washington 3, Texas Tech 1, California 1, Cincinnati 1

I'm not surprised to see Georgia and Notre Dame get dropped from both polls; but I was somewhat surprised to see Auburn get dropped from the USA Today Poll. I'm sure we're going to see Boise continue to drop in the rankings even if they keep winning... which is pathetic. They already went from 4 to 5 in the USA Today poll, and I'd expect that trend to continue.

 

[BadBoy]

All it will take for a playoff is Boise St. to win a National Championship.

 

[Natasha]

I don't know that I'm surprised to see Auburn dropped. They had a lot of trouble w/ an unranked team and barely pulled out of the hole they were in. Definitely not surprised at Georgia. I have faith that we will come back and have a good season, dammit!!!

 

[Maulds]

I'm not surprised to see Auburn fall. They were damn lucky to beat Utah State at home and Miss St is gonna hand them their asses this Saturday.

 

[retro]

Definitely not surprised at Georgia. I have faith that we will come back and have a good season, dammit!!!

I still can't figure out how they were ranked to begin with to be honest.

 

[Maulds]

Me neither. Did they even score an offensive TD against Central Florida in that bowl game? Then they are pre-season top 20?

 

[porterjack]

Two things, outside of women, i will never understand
Finnish, and college fb rankings

 

[Natasha]

I've come a looooooooong way in what I know about football, but all that ranking stuff is way down on my list of things I need to learn. I don't know how they come up w/ it pre-season but I was surprised to see we were ranked this year.

 

[retro]

Preseason polls are based on a combination of performance and talent from the previous year, perceived talent for the incoming year, and a program's supposed "prestige".... that's also combined with the talent that the program lost the previous year and how they're expected to perform based on all of those factors. Schools from the BCS Automatic Qualifier conferences are given a higher weighting because they're supposedly overall better programs than non-AQs. The AQ conferences are the SEC, B1G (Big Ten plus two), Pac-12, Big-12 (minus two, soon to be three), ACC, and Big East. There are exceptions to this rule, in Boise State and TCU (both of whom had high rankings because of their history of high performance as well as the other factors).

Ultimately though, the human polls are totally and completely subjective as to how the individual voters feel about any given program. For example, Georgia still received votes to remain in the Top 25 this week, despite being 0-2; meanwhile if my Bulldogs had beaten Nebraska (like we should have -.-), chances are we still wouldn't have gotten any votes to make the Top 25.

 

[AUFred]

Auburn fell out of the poll in week 2. Climbed back in this week. 2-0 with another tough game this weekend. First road game makes me nervous.

 

[retro]

I think the only reason you guys pulled that game out was horrible offensive playcalling on the part of Mississippi State. They didn't seem to realize that they could run the ball straight down your throats until it was way too late... who knows why that was the case. I would most definitely be scared after that game, and especially the near-loss to Utah State.

 

[Natasha]

Preseason polls are based on a combination of performance and talent from the previous year, perceived talent for the incoming year, and a program's supposed "prestige".... that's also combined with the talent that the program lost the previous year and how they're expected to perform based on all of those factors. Schools from the BCS Automatic Qualifier conferences are given a higher weighting because they're supposedly overall better programs than non-AQs. The AQ conferences are the SEC, B1G (Big Ten plus two), Pac-12, Big-12 (minus two, soon to be three), ACC, and Big East. There are exceptions to this rule, in Boise State and TCU (both of whom had high rankings because of their history of high performance as well as the other factors).

Ultimately though, the human polls are totally and completely subjective as to how the individual voters feel about any given program. For example, Georgia still received votes to remain in the Top 25 this week, despite being 0-2; meanwhile if my Bulldogs had beaten Nebraska (like we should have -.-), chances are we still wouldn't have gotten any votes to make the Top 25.

Ahhh, okay. That's pretty much what I assumed. I've come a long way in the past 10 years. 10 years ago when my mother tried to explain to me what a running back was I looked at her puzzled and said "but they're ALL running!!!" :24: No doubt UGA has the popular vote...and there is some promising talent this year...but I'll be damned if we're putting it all to use!!!